Wednesday, November 15, 2017

2017 Completed Challenge: Back to Classics


Back to the Classics 2017
Host: Books and Chocolate (sign up)
January - December 2017
# of books: 6-12
Russian Classic: We. Yevgeny Zamyatin. Translated by Clarence Brown. 1924/1993. 225 pages. [Source: Bought]
Romance classic: The Kellys and the O'Kellys. Anthony Trollope. 1848. 537 pages. [Source: Bought]
A 20th Century Classic -  A Canticle for Leibowitz. Walter M. Miller Jr. 1959. 335 pages. [Source: Bought]
An award-winning classic.(Newbery) Carry On, Mr. Bowditch. Jean Lee Latham. 1955. 251 pages. [Source: Bought]
A classic with a number in the title. Twelve Angry Men. Reginald Rose. 1954/2006. 79 pages. [Source: Library]
A classic about an animal or which includes the name of an animal in the title.   Stuart Little. E.B. White. Illustrated by Garth Williams. 1945. 131 pages. [Source: Library]
A 19th Century Classic -  La Vendee. Anthony Trollope. 1850. 512 pages. [Source: Bought]
A classic set in a place you'd like to visit. Barchester Towers. Anthony Trollope. 1857. 418 pages. [Source: Bought]
A classic in translationThe Adolescent. Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. 1875/2004. 647 pages. [Source: Library]
A Gothic or horror classic.  Great Expectations. Charles Dickens. 1860. 640 pages. [Source: Library]
Classic Published Before 1800. The Bruised Reed. Richard Sibbes. 1630. [Source: Bought]
3.  A classic by a woman author. Adam Bede. George Eliot. 1859. 624 pages. [Source: Bought]

contact info (if I win) laney_po AT yahoo DOT com

I completed all twelve categories, so that is three entries in the drawing.

© 2017 Becky Laney of Becky's Book Reviews

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